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of our language from another circumstance, that abstracted ideas 

 become so readily personified simply by the omission of it; which 

 perhaps renders the English language better adapted to poetry than 

 any other ancient or modern : the following prosopopoeia from Shak- 

 speare is thus beautiful. 



She let Concealment like a worm i' th' bud 

 Feed on her damask cheek. 



And the following line, translated from Juvenal by Dr. Johnson, 

 is much superior to the original, owing to the easy pei'sonification of 

 Worth and Poverty, and to the consequent conciseness of it. 



Difficile emergunt, quorum virtutibus obstat 

 Res angusta domi. 



Slow rises Worth by Poverty depress'd. 



3. A third class of adjectives includes what are termed PARTI- 

 CIPLES, which are allied to the infinitive moods of verbs, and are 

 formed in our language by the addition only of the syllable ing or ed; 

 and are of two kinds, active and passive, as loving, loved, from the 

 verb to love. The verbs suggest an idea of the noun, or thing spoken 

 of; and also of its manner of existence, whether at rest, in action, or 

 in being acted upon; as I lie still, or I whip, or I am whipped; and, 

 lastly, another idea of the time of resting, acting, or suffering; but 

 these adjectives called participles, suggest only two primary ideas, 

 one of the noun, or thing spoken of, and another of the mode of exist- 

 ence, but not a third idea of time; and in this respect participles 

 differ from the verbs, from which they originate, or which originated 

 from them, except in their infinitive moods. 



Nor do they resemble adjectives only in their suggesting but two 

 primary ideas; but in the Latin and Greek languages they are de- 

 clined through all the cases, genders, and numbers, like other adjec- 

 tives; and change their terminations in the degrees of comparison. 



In our language the participle passive, joined to the verb to be, for 

 the purpose of adding to it the idea of time, forms the whole of the 

 passive voice; and is frequently used in a similar manner in the Latiu 



